Suggestions that young people are not interested in the news may be wide of the mark, with a new a survey of tablet computer owners forecasting an increase in news readership among 18- to 24-year-olds.

More than 12 million adults in the UK now own a tablet device, such as an Apple iPad, Google Nexus 7 or Microsoft Surface, according to the YouGov survey for Newsworks, the UK newspaper industry marketing body.